My first visit to a salted egg factory and I am super duper excited! I love salted egg, more so as I grow older. Mom always made sure we had salted eggs when we have porridge at home and I always loved the egg yolks. Now, apart from porridge, I like salted eggs with curry too. Nonetheless, salted egg products are everywhere now...there is even ready-made salted egg gravy in the supermarkets.
Anyways, let's go! This is Joo Hong Chan Salted Egg factory in Kuala Kurau.
The arrival of duck eggs into the factory.
I actually thought they reared their own ducks at the back of the factory.
That was the first place I 'inspected'. I found chickens instead of ducks!
Nope, they do not have their own ducks. In fact, the duck eggs come from a nearby farm.
Their little chicken farm at the back of the factory
The too-cracked eggs will be sold to the Char Kuey Teow stalls
These duck egg yolks are ready to be cleaned and graded, manually. They will be used to make mooncakes.
These ladies are cleaning and grading the egg yolks manually
This is clay + water + salt
Creamy
Salt comes from Australia
Time to play! Send the coated duck eggs rolling!!!
The duck eggs coated with salted mud mixture are sent through the ask-coating machine and as the machine turns, the eggs will be coated nicely with ash.
Bags of ash
All done!
The eggs are packed in boxes with different grading. AA is the biggest in size. Customers may eat these eggs after 1 week being packed. If you wait longer, the eggs would become saltier. So it depends on how salty you like your eggs to be!!!
Joo Hong Chan has an interesting souvenir shop. They, of course, have salted eggs for sale. They have century eggs for sale too. They make their own kaya @coconut jam and mooncakes.
Century eggs
Salted eggs
Mooncakes
20 salted eggs in a box
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